'Bill' Thomas outback pioneer : autobiography of William Hubert 'Bill' Thomas / compiled by Kevin Thomas
- Bib ID:
- 422748
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Thomas, William Hubert
- Description:
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- Forster, N.S.W. : K. Thomas, 2000
- 175 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
- ISBN:
- 0957812701
- Summary:
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Autobiography of William Hubert 'Bill' Thomas, manager of Balcanoona Station, Flinders Rangers, South Australia and of Mount Wood, Tibooburra, N.S.W.; early life; bank and insurance work; health and family farm problems; career in the Light Horse; marriage; move to Balcanoona station as manager; stories of life on Balaconna station; Aboriginal people worked and lived on station; Sam and Wally Coulthard; strike by Aboriginal stockmen; Aboriginal legend of Arkaroo; Flying Doctor Service; move to Blyth, then to Mount Wood and stories about life there; Aboriginal artefacts; history of Mount Wood; extracts from diaries of Margaret Thomas; retirement.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Subject:
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- Thomas, William Hubert
- Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia -- History
- Stockmen -- South Australia -- Flinders Ranges -- Biography
- Stockmen -- New South Wales -- Tibooburra -- Biography
- Frontier and pioneer life -- New South Wales -- Tibooburra -- Biography
- Frontier and pioneer life -- South Australia -- Flinders Ranges -- Biography
- Aboriginal Australians -- New South Wales -- History
- Aboriginal Australians -- South Australia -- History
- Employment - Conditions
- Sites - Stone arrangements
- Stories and motifs - Snakes
- History - Biographies - Non-Indigenous - Autobiographies
- Economic sectors - Agriculture and horticulture - Pastoral industry
- Occupations - Pastoral industry workers
- Technology - Stone
- Tibooburra (N.S.W.) -- History
- Flinders Ranges (S.A.) -- Biography
- Tibooburra (NW NSW SH54-07)
- Flinders Ranges (NE SA SH54-09, SH54-13)
- Other authors/contributors:
- Thomas, K. J. (Kevin James), 1926-
- Copyright:
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- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 2000
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